Connecticut western news., 1887-12-28
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

In many counties around Kingston, Ont, hotel men are closing up their bars, as a third conviction of selling liqucr will send them to prison,
 The worst storm of the season is reported from all parts of Minnesota and Dakota. Pas senger trains are greatly delayed, and but few freights arc moving.
 The Supreme Court of Iowa has decided that registered pharmacists were not required 10 obtain permit from the county Board of Supervisors to sell liquors for medicinal pur- poses.
 Employees of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company and the Scranton Steel Com pany have been notified ti.at reduction of 10 per cent in their wages will be made on Jan. ?. This will affect B, coo men.
 Following upon the heels of the unfavor- able decision handed down by the Supreme Court comes the announcement that all East ern insurance companies holding risks on Du- quque Ua.) breweries have advised their agents to cancel them-
 The Buck Shoals MiningCompany are talk ing out orc near Jasper, Ind, that assays over S59 in silver and S4 in gold per ton.
 An incendiary burned the Sturgis Nation al Bank block st Hillsboro, Tex. Loss S5S,- coo; insurance, Sio,00o.
 The late David Whitcomb of Boston has bequeathed by his will S127, 900 to various Protestant religious societies.
 Judge McAllister, of Chicago, has decided that the ordinance prohibiting the sale of liquors to minors Is unconstitutional
 "A woman named Frankie Ols n is under arrest on suspicion at Detroit with thirty eight S1. 900 United States bonds in her pos session The coupons had been clipped from the bonds up to Jan. 1, lSSS.
 Negroes thrown out of employment in the Phosphate mines, near Charleston, s. C., are in state of lawessness. Henry Richton, a storekeeper at Ten-Mile Station made des- l> rate and successful defence of his premises against band who had attemp, ed to carry of all his stock of goods.
 A fanatic at Selma, Ala, called for 8 hu- msn sacrifice, and negro woman offering herself be killed her.
 valuations on the part of importers is ready to be reported to Congress.
 Daniel Drowbaush, of Eberty's Mill, near Harrisburg, Is at work on & novel electrical apparatus which in time of war will announce the approach of body of men CT of ship ten miles away.
 A cyclone in Indian Territory destroyed a large amount of property and killed and in jured number of people.
 Capt. G. W. Knott, sn ex-oficer in the English army, was drowned at Corpus Christi, Texas. He was an expert taxidermist, who had been employed for several months in gath ering specimens of wild water fowl for the leading museums of the world.
 A mechanic, while stealing ride over the Missouri river. at Omaha. on a locomotive cowcatcher, was robbed and thrown down the trestle by two tramps who accompanied him.
 The four anarchists who were hanged in Chicago, and Louis LinSg. who committed suicide were buried st Waldheim Cemetery.
 The total school bonded indebtedness cf Kansas, according to the report of the Super tendent of Public Instruction, is S, PIG, ,659.
 While protecting a lady from two ruffians in Allegheny City, Pa, Policeman John Wal lace was f,tally stabbed by one of the men.
 A destructiuc cyclone is reported from Armstrong Academy, Fort Washita and Green, Indian Territory. Seven persons are report. ed killed and many injured.
 Sir Charles Tupper, Canadian Fisheries Commissioner, says that on the resembling of the Commission commercial union between Canada and the United States will be urged a . settlement of the whole question.